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Hitachi

November 2006

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  • Epic Code:
  • HCU
  • Price:
  • 259p
A battered old veteran in the Finance sector and a favourite amongst private client brokers, Hitachi Capital (HCU; 259p) finally showed signs of coming back to life following its H1 results. These showed pretax profit lifting by 47% to £7.5m and earnings per share benefiting from the settlement of a prior year tax claim rising 70% to 13.9p. The H1 dividend also rose 8% to 3.5p. Hitachi is a credit finance company offering a range of finance and leasing services to business customers. It comprises five lending niches: unsecured retail finance through retailers, asset backed financing for plant and equipment, Fleetlease, which provides car contract hire and fleet management and the sale of extended warranties and payment pro ...

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